Okay all you Tesoro gurus!

[michaelnc]

Which is the best Tesoro for basic coinshooting. I have owned the Eldorado, the Silver and a Cortes. They were all good at coinshooting. I purchased a Toltec II about a month ago in excellent condition. This detector is better than those mentioned above and the meter is more like the Fisher CZ5 being analog. The disc seems to be better as well. I heard it has the 120 disc instead of the 180 what does this mean. Sorry for rambling but what I want to know is the Tejon or Vaquero better than the Toltec II. Down to around eight inches this thing is great but I wonder if it will go deeper.

 

[MaineDigger]

Two Words: Golden Umax.

 

[Mike Hillis]

n/t

 

[Frank in NH]

n/t

 

[MaineDigger]

Your question was:
Which is the best Tesoro for basic coinshooting.

I've never owned a Tejon, however for Tesoros, I have owned:
Vaquero
Cibola
Bandido II uMax
Silver Umax
Golden Umax
Cortes

Out of those, the Golden still stands out as the best (IMHO) for coinshooting. the Tone ID, VCO All-Metal, and notch feature with variable width really make it shine. Try one, and give yourself plenty of time to learn the tones and notch filter, etc., and then try another machine. You'll see I've owned two of them. I visited a ballpark parking lot that is littered with pulltabs and didn't dig a single one, however I did dig plenty of nickels.

You might get more depth out of the tejon, but it's all relative...

 

[Gribnitz]

Your right, and soil is the key. If you live in an area that stuff doesn't sink very far, a deep seeker may not be needed. I live in an area where the clay layer is pretty shallow. Stuff hits that clay and hangs there, so a deep machine isn't really needed, but I like to have the Tejon "just to be sure". I really want to get a multi tone machine for coins, but the Tejon finds everything and I am willing to dig it, so I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. You can learn to understand the sounds the Tejon gives, but your still sure to dig shot gun shells and pulltabs because they usually sound good.

 

[rvbvetter]

I've had my Tejon for a good 6 months now and what I've come to notice about it is.
It has pretty good depth but not great depth. But even though the depth isn't the deepest out there, it still goes deeper than the discrimination would like.
Meaning that, up to aprox. 6 inches the disc is quite good. But beyond that point it starts accepting things that it would normally reject if it was 6" or less. So if your unfortunate enough to live in the land of 6" and deeper pull tabs. Be prepared to dig a lot of pull tabs. Not only pull tabs but other normally rejected items as well.
Just my opinion, but what I think could have over come this little problem, is that if the Tejon had come with tone ID. You would then of had a second opinion to help you decide if it's worth digging. HH

 

[RANDY CONNELL]

i bought me a used tesoro older model golden sabre plus and it rocks what trash.i even took it to a old site i pounded a lot and pulled 3 eagle buttons out with it in under 10 minutes no bull, i have used vaquero and cibola and i love my cibola. wating to see if any new modles are going to spring up on tesoro end.

 

[Pap]

The problem could be the same for tone ID if the target is beyond the range of discrimination.

 

[rvbvetter]

That could certainly be the case. But I've just noticed that on my other tone ID machines the last thing that seems to fail me in the discrimination dept. is the tone ID. On my other machines the tone ID seems to help the disc. go that extra mile. HH